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EVERY leaf and blade of grass swarms with life, the earth is alive and stirs beneath me, everything rings in one chord, then the soul rejoices and flies in the immeasurable space around me. There is no up and down any more, no beginning and no end, I hear and feel the living breath of God . . ." Dr. Leary? Alan Watts? No; it was thus, in 1802, that a 25-year- old painter named Philipp Otto Runge set down his ecstatic nature worship in a letter to his elder brother. It may be that Runge had what most of us have...
...Zeppelin was launched in 1968 in what Lead Vocalist Robert Plant calls a "smash-bang-wallop" fashion. After a week's tour of Scandinavia, the group knocked out its first ragged LP in 15 hours. The group's spontaneity and free-floating blues improvisations struck a responsive chord among the young, and the LP became a million-dollar seller...
...quite different. It's quite possible that his fatalism-in a song called "The Bulls," for example, he consoles those animals that weekly face two-bit matadors with the thought that men treat each other equally wretchedly, citing Waterloo, Verdun, Stalingrad, Hiroshima and Saigon as proof-strikes a richer chord in the European mind. It's also possible that once you know the whole body of his work, its individual parts behave quite differently...
Moynihan Concept. Aware that FAP would strike an antagonistic chord in committee conservatives of his own party, President Nixon had relied on Democratic liberals for needed support. But to them, FAP, as it would affect most recipients, was still not generous enough. The bill also seemed almost as subject to abuse as current laws. As Republican Jack Miller of Iowa said last week: "I don't know one member of the committee who will support the Administration plan as written...
During his successful campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination in Minnesota, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey strummed a persistent chord: "There can be no alternative to public safety." Little more than a year ago, Humphrey was speaking of "patriots of dissent, filled with anger and indignation who deserve our thanks, not our rebuke." Party Chairman Lawrence O'Brien, currently on a combined speechmaking, fundraising, strategy-planning tour, rarely fails to stress Democratic devotion to a disciplined, though dissenting society...